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Originally Posted by lrt's friend
Toronto's 'joke' commuter rail network is receiving enormous investment, which is gradually transforming it into a true rapid transit network. Its high ridership is no joke.
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speaking of jokes, bad jokes that is. for every ying there is a yang -- and its often so with the relative fall of cleveland and ne ohio and the rise of toronto. cle had the only commuter rail in ohio, to youngstown, so you can see where this story is going, ugh. the daily service finally peetered out in after conrail took over erie lacakawanna in 1970 and and it ended in 1977 (their other commuter trains were in nj and instead of shutting down as they did in ne ohio they became part of nj transit).
there have been other proposals to revive commuter rail in the cleve, all shot down for various reasons. so far anyway. the big idea currently is actually a much bigger one, the 3C's plan to tie cle-cols-day-cinci together with the rail line, but a previous plan was shot down by the state gov and there seems to be no major advocacy for the current plan. so we will see if ohio has it together enough to go for any of uncle joe's infrastructure money for it.
